Longitude
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
19 May 1947, England, UK
1 June 1946, Dundee, Scotland, UK
8 February 1957, Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland
22 November 1995, Hampshire, England, UK
1978 in Sussex, England, UK
28 February 1918, Peckham, London, England, UK
21 October 1976, Dublin, Ireland
2 June 1960, Bromley, Kent, England, UK
18 February 1963, Chard, Somerset, England, UK
18 September 1956, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, England, UK
February 21, 1944 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK
27 April 1965, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
2 June 1951, Poplar, London, England, UK
2 December 1941, Cardiff, Wales, UK
21 May 1953, London, England, UK
19 October 1940, Cabra, Dublin, Ireland
1 October 1969, Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK
14 December 1935, Bath, Somerset, England, UK [now Bath and North East Somerset, England, UK]
8 March 1971, Surrey, England, UK
26 June 1946, Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
7 September 1929, Mullagh, County Cavan, Ireland
14 March 1972, UK
23 May 1928, Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
July 13, 1925 in New York City, New York, USA
5 February 1929, London, England, UK
8 October 1964, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
